On: Estimate the size of your English vocabulary (2014)

[ebg13]

What counts as "English vocabulary"? I definitely don't count the name of the currency of Malaysia. It seems like they're relying on random selection from thefreedictionary and user feedback, but their take on "English word" vs "other language that happens to use the Latin alphabet" differs from mine.

[wincy → ebg13]

I got “gaucho” and that scored as an English word. I’m not sure I’ve ever heard it used other than to talk about Spanish speaking cowboys.

[joezydeco → wincy]

I got "halal". Definitely a word you hear as an English speaker, but not a word that came from English.

I have a feeling Scrabble players do well on this test.

[Ma8ee → joezydeco]

What does "came from English" even mean? At some point all the words in English came from something else, like French, Latin or old Norse.

[qwsxyh → joezydeco]

halal is a loanword.

[joezydeco → qwsxyh]

Yeah that's what I was getting at. Kind of like what the Germans call "denglish".

[ebg13 → wincy]

On a second run I got

Barras (French baras) n (Biography) Paul François Jean Nicolas, Vicomte de Barras. 1755–1829, French revolutionary: member of the Directory (1795–99)

Rigorous methodology this is not.